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- From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
- Subject: Re: xlock does not validate passwords!!!
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:35:03 GMT
- References: <4DEC199211124208@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> <jpe.723496652@ee.egr.duke.edu>
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- In article <jpe.723496652@ee.egr.duke.edu> jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
- >It sounds like you're having problems with the shadow password file. Note
- >that if a password is shadowed, the getpwent() routines will return the
- >encrypted password as "*". You will have to make the appropriate calls
- >to get the "real" encrypted password.
-
- The getpwent() routines automatically get the encrypted password from
- /etc/security/passwd when the user is root. You don't have to be using
- NIS/YP either.
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